Evolution- ON HOLD (for now hopefully)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

LUNA'S POV

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I wake up feeling very well rested, and soon I realize why I feel so awake. I look up at the sky and see the sun has already rose a good distance into the sky. I silently curse myself for sleeping in, and then I hear it. 

A great booming laugh echoes off somewhere to my right. I'm basically frozen with fear, but then I get my wits about me and rush around my camp, trying to rid it of signs of life. I then get ready to change into my animal form and run out of here but then I stop myself. 

"Why run, when you can hide?", I think to myself. I decide on a plan and go with it. 

Inside my head I think the word "squirrel", then start to feel my body change on the instant. I get shorter, my tail grows out, I feel fur growing all over my body and my teeth growing longer. All-in-all it is an unpleasant feeling, but it only lasts for a second, and then I scamper up a tree to eavesdrop.  

"Why, again, do we have to go tramping through these damn woods all day?" Asked a random hunter that I couldn't even see because he was somewhere in the middle of there formation. 

"Keep your voice down! I already told you, we got a tip that there was a mutant in these woods, one we've been looking for for a long time", replied General Bane. At that moment I consider jumping down and scratching out his eyes, but his comment makes me wary, "one we've been looking for for a long time". 

That's got to be me. I've been on the run for nine years, since I was 6. I'm 15 now. It's not the comment that makes me wary though, it's how they know. Who told them? I haven't seen any one for a whole year, at least! Until last night, that is. I'm not surprised it's the General looking for me, actually I've been expecting him for sometime. He won't stop until he finishes the job he started 7 years ago, on the worst night of my life. 

"Now get searching! Remember she can change into animals so keep your eyes peeled for any types of life", the General says, then goes off to search for me. 

"Wow what a stupid, idiot", i think to myself, "I'm right above him and he doesn't even know". So instead of pressing my luck, I, literally, turn tail and run. But I fail. 

As I try to jump from one of the branches to the other I miss and fall to a lower branch, causing the leaves to rustle and the branch that I missed to shake and drop a shower of leaves onto the hunters. Shit. 

They all turned on the spot and stared right at me. I felt like a deer in the headlights. I kept telling myself "move, move, move" over and over in my head, but fear held me in place. Then I realized, by staying still I was giving myself away.  

"Act like a squirrel, act like a squirrel!", I told myself, so I chattered madly at them and scampered farther up the tree. 

"Stupid squirrel, nearly made me shit myself!", the same hunter as before says. 

"YOU FOOLS! THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HER!!!!! SHOOT DOWN THAT SQUIRREL!!!!", the General shouts.  

All of a sudden shots are fired everywhere. I actually am worried they might shoot me, but then I see a different squirrel fall out of the tree. I feel bad for the little guy, and even more so when I see he's still alive. 

"Bring it with, we'll check the DNA to see if it's her", the General says, "but still keep your eyes open, there are many animals in these woods".  

Time to go. If they are watching for all animals then I'm in danger. Moving as quietly as possible, I slink through the tree branches to the edge of the forest. Once I get there I scurry down the tree and sit on the ground right on the edge of the forest. Once I get there I think "cheetah", and start to feel the changes taking place. As soon as they're done, I set off at a full speed dash.

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As soon as I'm far enough from the forest, I slow down to a nice trot I can keep at for a while. While I head towards no place in particular, I allow my thoughts to wander. The biggest thing that bothers me is who could have seen me, and even more worrisome, who would recognize me? 

The next thing that crosses my mind also worries me. I was at their mercy back in the woods. It could have easily have been me that got shot, not the other squirrel. I was lucky and that's all. Pure chance. I am vulnerable alone, I need support, I need help. But who can I trust? If I go up to someone, they'd be more likely to turn me in then to help me. There is only two options I can take. I can stay alone, or I could go to them. The problem is, going to them means I will have to confront my past, and for a moment I decide to keep living how I am, but then in the distance I hear multiple gunshots go off and know, however many times I escape, they will keep tracking me, and one of these times, my luck will run out. That's when I make my final decision. 

I must go to The Rebels.